[Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#628839: fontforge: FTBFS with Python 2.7: undefined reference to `PyBytes_Decode'

[Jakub Wilk]

Source: fontforge
Version: 0.0.20100501-6
Severity: important
User: debian-python at lists.debian.org
Usertags: python2.7

When rebuilt against python-defaults 2.7.2-1 (currently in experimental),
fontforge failed to build from source:
| /bin/sh ../libtool --mode=link gcc   -L/usr/local/lib -o fontforge \
| 	    alignment.o anchorsaway.o autowidth2dlg.o basedlg.o bdfinfo.o bitmapdlg.o bitmapview.o charinfo.o charview.o clipui.o combinations.o contextchain.o cursors.o cvaddpoints.o cvdebug.o cvdgloss.o cvexportdlg.o cvfreehand.o cvgetinfo.o cvgridfit.o cvhand.o cvhints.o cvimportdlg.o cvknife.o cvpalettes.o cvpointer.o cvruler.o cvshapes.o cvstroke.o cvtranstools.o displayfonts.o effectsui.o encodingui.o fontinfo.o fontview.o freetypeui.o fvfontsdlg.o fvmetricsdlg.o gotodlg.o groupsdlg.o histograms.o images.o kernclass.o layer2layer.o lookupui.o macencui.o math.o metricsview.o mmdlg.o nonlineartransui.o oflib.o openfontdlg.o prefs.o problems.o pythonui.o savefontdlg.o scriptingdlg.o scstylesui.o searchview.o sftextfield.o showatt.o simplifydlg.o splashimage.o stamp.o startui.o statemachine.o tilepath.o transform.o ttfinstrsui.o uiutil.o windowmenu.o justifydlg.o deltaui.o exelibstamp.lo ../libfontforge.la -rpath /usr/lib ../libgdraw.la ../libgutils.la ../libgunicode.la -lSM -lICE -lcairo -lfontconfig -pthread -lpangoxft-1.0 -lpangoft2-1.0 -lXft -lpango-1.0 -lfreetype -lfontconfig -lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -lgthread-2.0 -lrt -lglib-2.0   -lXft -pthread -lpangocairo-1.0 -lpango-1.0 -lcairo -lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -lgthread-2.0 -lrt -lglib-2.0   -lX11  -ldl  -lpthread -ldl -lutil -lm -lpython2.7 -lpthread -lgif -lpng -lz -ltiff -ljpeg -lfreetype -lxml2 -lspiro -luninameslist -lgif -lm
| libtool: link: gcc -o .libs/fontforge alignment.o anchorsaway.o autowidth2dlg.o basedlg.o bdfinfo.o bitmapdlg.o bitmapview.o charinfo.o charview.o clipui.o combinations.o contextchain.o cursors.o cvaddpoints.o cvdebug.o cvdgloss.o cvexportdlg.o cvfreehand.o cvgetinfo.o cvgridfit.o cvhand.o cvhints.o cvimportdlg.o cvknife.o cvpalettes.o cvpointer.o cvruler.o cvshapes.o cvstroke.o cvtranstools.o displayfonts.o effectsui.o encodingui.o fontinfo.o fontview.o freetypeui.o fvfontsdlg.o fvmetricsdlg.o gotodlg.o groupsdlg.o histograms.o images.o kernclass.o layer2layer.o lookupui.o macencui.o math.o metricsview.o mmdlg.o nonlineartransui.o oflib.o openfontdlg.o prefs.o problems.o pythonui.o savefontdlg.o scriptingdlg.o scstylesui.o searchview.o sftextfield.o showatt.o simplifydlg.o splashimage.o stamp.o startui.o statemachine.o tilepath.o transform.o ttfinstrsui.o uiutil.o windowmenu.o justifydlg.o deltaui.o .libs/exelibstamp.o -pthread -pthread  -L/usr/local/lib ../.libs/libfontforge.so ../.libs/libgdraw.so ../.libs/libgutils.so ../.libs/libgunicode.so -lSM -lICE /usr/lib/libpangoxft-1.0.so /usr/lib/libpangoft2-1.0.so -lfontconfig -lXft /usr/lib/libpangocairo-1.0.so /usr/lib/libpango-1.0.so /usr/lib/libcairo.so /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so /usr/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so /usr/lib/libgthread-2.0.so -lrt /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so -lX11 -ldl -lutil -lpython2.7 -lpthread -lpng -lz /usr/lib/libtiff.so /usr/lib/libjpeg.so /usr/lib/libfreetype.so /usr/lib/libxml2.so /usr/lib/libspiro.so /usr/lib/libuninameslist.so /usr/lib/libgif.so -lm -pthread -Wl,-rpath -Wl,/usr/lib
| ../.libs/libfontforge.so: undefined reference to `PyBytes_Decode'
| collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
| make[2]: *** [../libfontforge.la] Error 1

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Jakub Wilk